Recent Scholarship
Social Welfare and Public Health
Posey, Trisha, “‘Alive to the Cry of Distress’: Joseph and Jan Sill and Poor Relief in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (July 2008), 215–43.
Sato, Chitose, “Hahaoya Nenkin kara Jido Hojo e: 1935nen Shakai-Hoshou-ho to Jendani kansuru Ichi Kosatsu” (From mothers’ pension to aid to dependent children: Gender in the United States Social Security Act of 1935), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 45–56. In Japanese.
Schneiderhan, Erik, “Jane Addams and Charity Organization in Chicago,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Winter 2007–2008), 299–327.
Skok, Deborah A., “The Historiography of Catholic Laywomen and Progressive Era Reform,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 1–22.
Willrich, Michael, “‘The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country’: Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 76–93.
Arena, John D., “Winds of Change before Katrina: New Orleans’ Public Housing Struggles within a Race, Class, and Gender Dialectic” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3289688.
Cote, Jennifer Lyn, “‘Nobody Ever Paid Me for Anything’: Crafting a Professional Social Work Identity in Progressive-Era Boston” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3283906.
Lawinski, Terese, “Welfare Restructuring in Suburban New York” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283625.
Nathan Wright, Amy, “Civil Rights ‘Unfinished Business’: Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277859.
Padamsee, Tasleem Juana, “Infusing Health into the Welfare State: hiv/aids Policy Making in the United States and the United Kingdom” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287600.
Rosenheck, Stephen, “Community-Based Care for the Severe Mentally Ill in Sweden and the United States” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3284489.
Cantor, David, ed., Cancer in the Twentieth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 350 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8867-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Colgrove, James, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds., The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4311-6. x, 293 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4312-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Edmunds, Susan, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 258 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-533853-9.)
Huret, Romain, La fin de la pauvreté? Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis (1945–1974) (The end of poverty? Social experts in the war against poverty in the United States, 1945–1974). (Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008. 237 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7132-2162-0.) In French.
Pasquill, Robert, Jr., The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933–1942: A Great and Lasting Good. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $57.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1621-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5495-4.) Includes cd.
Sommer, Barbara W., Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008. viii, 205 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87351-612-9.) Heavily illustrated.
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